# Avatars, comments thereon **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633 "2025-03-15T23:46:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/61 "2025-03-17T18:29:36Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > A couple of years ago now, there was a thread here where people talked about cat-themed avatars, and I changed mine, temporarily, to a picture of a cat wearing Obi-Wan’s hooded cloak. It was cute enough, and amused me enough, that the temporary change became an “until further notice” change. That thead was a PITA. About 30 people changed their avatars to pics of a dark cat. Their cat, which was obvious to them. But to the rest of us, they were all generic dark cat pix; you couldn’t tell any of them apart. Yours at least had the virtue of distinctiveness. And cuteness. And a connection to your Dopername. > [@ParallelLines](#): > > And, IIRC, there were a number of other cat-conversions, and people began complaining that they were getting confused as to which poster they were communicating with due to cat-contamination. Which proves that many of us pay more attention to the avatars than we may admit! Yep. Agree that @DocCathode’s change is an improvement given what we know of the character he’s sorta-playing. OTOH, as a general matter ISTM people ought to not change avatars as fashion statements. Pick one and stick with it for life. > [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I’m still annoyed that @rat_avatar’s avatar is not a rat. And that andy guy doesn’t have an andy in his avatar either. What’s with these people? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/62 "2025-03-17T18:42:06Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > And that andy guy doesn’t have an andy in his avatar either. What’s with these people? 😉 How do you know the hippo’s not named Andy? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/63 "2025-03-17T18:44:29Z")
I used to have the orange swimming cat who had no fcks left. Wasn’t I the one who started the cat avatar thread? ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/64 "2025-03-17T18:49:00Z")
[Yes.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cat-avatars-on-the-dope/) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/65 "2025-03-17T20:24:15Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I’m still annoyed that @rat_avatar’s avatar is not a rat. As am I that @Dinsdale’s isn’t Spiny Norman. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/66 "2025-03-17T22:53:50Z")
I’m not saying the avatar _has_ to be a literal representation of the user name, but it’s better that way. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/67 "2025-03-17T22:54:52Z")
Ut-oh. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/68 "2025-03-18T00:39:06Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > I’m not saying the avatar _has_ to be a literal representation of the user name, but it’s better that way. Which would mean my switching my avatar to an orange cat, since Eddy, Teddy, and Freddy (RIP) were orange boys. Should I do that? Or stick with this one, which is of my thumb-boy Schooner (RIP)? ETA: Here’s a candidate, the late Teddy: [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreid2zeufla4ovif2ychkypyhfejyncu5ymway5lqty5ohas5fgwidi@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreid2zeufla4ovif2ychkypyhfejyncu5ymway5lqty5ohas5fgwidi@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/69 "2025-03-18T01:06:09Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > Ut-oh. As long as it represents your online name, or your online personality, it’'ll be be fine. j/k. Ouch, quick kicking me with the sparkly jackboots! It was a joke, I swear!11!1!!1! Ouch! ouch! OUCH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/70 "2025-03-18T01:15:25Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > As long as it represents your online name, or your online personality, it’'ll be be fine. Wait. Wot? \< bwink \> Are you implying…? \< sigh \> Well, I suppose if the carapace fits… ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/71 "2025-03-18T01:28:04Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > > [@LSLGuy](#): > > > > As long as it represents your online name, or your online personality, it’'ll be be fine. > > Wait. Wot? \< bwink \> > > Are you implying…? > > \< sigh \> Well, I suppose if the carapace fits.. It’s okay, I promise! > [@ParallelLines](#): > > > [@DocCathode](#): > > > > Especially the way that rather than looking threatening and evil he looks annoyed and exasperated. > > Which fits me quite well much of the time. Not threatening and evil, but absolutely annoyed and exasperated. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/72 "2025-03-18T01:33:14Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > \< sigh \> Well, I suppose if the carapace fits… You are a sweet and savory inside. With the crusty outside needed to deal with the slings and arrows of being the Doper Police. In that way, your avatar is a perfect fit. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/73 "2025-03-18T04:55:11Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Here’s a candidate, the late Teddy: I think Teddy makes a splendid avatar. Gorgeous handsome boy he is, keep it. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/74 "2025-03-18T13:34:10Z")
My avatar is my cat Samantha preventing literacy. For a while I changed it to Moopsy from Star Trek Lower Decks, but I decided I liked the original better. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/75 "2025-03-18T14:51:36Z")
Mine is J. R. “Bob” Dobbs, founder and patron saint of the Church of the SubGenius (look it up at your own risk). A _Time_ magazine internet-based poll named him the “#1 Phoney or Fraud of the 20th century” — a sentiment I wholly share. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/76 "2025-03-18T14:58:22Z")
I bought a copy of the church’s High Weirdness By Mail years ago at a yard sale. I am finally getting rid of it. I have found some SubGenius sites with a high weirdness by web section. For the unfamiliar- It goes like this- Is it an actual cult? Nah, it’s a joke. Wait, it’s thinly disguised social commentary. The military industrial complex has won. Most people are sheep consumers. You cannot win the war. You cannot change the world. But, you can stop them from stealing your slack! If I am wrong in any of this, I know somebody will correct me. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/77 "2025-03-18T16:02:31Z")
I read that. They need an updated version. ---
**Author:** ![Hoops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoops/32/6408_2.png) [@Hoops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoops)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/78 "2025-03-18T16:30:20Z")
I love my avatar, though I can’t help but admit it is not great as a coin-sized blotch of low-three-digit pixels. It is Finn and Jake from [Adventure Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Time), imagined as the [Rider-Waite Tarot trump VIII (Strength).](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_(tarot_card)) > **[Pin by Stevie Nash on Adventure Time | Adventure time, Adventure time art,...](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/766456430303159010/)** > > This Pin was discovered by Stevie Nash. Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/79 "2025-03-18T19:10:14Z")
Okay, avatar admirers, the current one is Ted, of, yes, Eddy, Teddy, and Freddy. Here are Ed (head turned) and Fred (stretched out). Should I switch to one of these? [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreiarm5ucxgrsujjs2ulvrgieruq3j6ocicq6dzdhqy3lp6z63nxpw4@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreiarm5ucxgrsujjs2ulvrgieruq3j6ocicq6dzdhqy3lp6z63nxpw4@jpeg) [![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreihzm5vsi5id2sui5adgtyxlm5e75snd7lzicb4zmtkuon34kwqcha@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:gme3wshdrukjfhbnrj4ittzf/bafkreihzm5vsi5id2sui5adgtyxlm5e75snd7lzicb4zmtkuon34kwqcha@jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633/80 "2025-03-18T20:15:47Z")
I vote for staying with Ted! But then again I have a known preference for front-faced avatars with a look of exasperation… 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/avatars-comments-thereon/1015633.md?page=5)